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    What is Sexual Harassment? Sexual harassment is a type of sex separation that abuses Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII applies to businesses with 15 or more representatives, including state and neighborhood governments. It likewise applies to livelihood offices and to work associations, and additionally to the government. Unwelcome sexual advances, demands for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when this…

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    Filing a Sexual Harassment Complaint The Dothan City School System includes a process for filing a sexual harassment complaint in their Personnel Board Policies under Section 5.14, sub - section(s) 5.14.3 and 5.14.4. Sexual harassment is recognized by the Dothan City Schools Board of Education (DCBOE) as a form of sexual discrimination which is prohibited by anyone connected to or representing the DCBOE. The system has both an informal and formal complaint process in place. The informal…

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    (8) Many factors sparked the great controversy and conflict of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s and 1950s. Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 was a pivotal point leading up to the 1960s because it reversed the Plessy v. Ferguson case, deciding that facilities could be “separate but equal.” Thus, integration began in the schooling system with the Little Rock Nine, while many other activists seized the chance to attack the Jim Crow laws. Also, World War II black veterans rallied under the…

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    Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. led the charge of civil rights despite disagreeing with the basic factors of method and intention. Malcolm X’s famous speech The Ballot or The Bullet remains integral to his methods for attaining his goals. King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail communicates his intentions as well as his celebrated methods of civil disobedience. Malcolm X and King often critiqued the other in their work either in speeches or in writing; in his speech, Malcolm X calls attention to…

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    Even after the Civil War, in which all African-Americans no longer were deemed as slaves, the life of the black person did not get easier. For generations, the struggle to come out of impoverished lifestyles had been deemed as almost impossible. Faced by segregation, no equal rights, and the KKK, the newly freed African-Americans were not able to completely submerge themselves to “freedom”. Little by little, new opportunities emerged; however, the depths of acrimony and pain prevented blacks to…

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    receive a long-term sentencing comparable to violent offenders. Most of these males start selling drugs, and getting arrested at a young age, which happens to be during secondary and post-secondary education. Being imprisoned, they are deprived of rights, education, and are unable to receive reasonable…

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    this paper is to analyze sexual harassment and its relation to power. Sexual harassment in the workplace has existed since the entrance of women into this setting. The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act deal with sexual harassment in the workplace. Women were undermined and considered unworthy of many positions. Therefore, men in superior positions took advantage of their power. Ultimately, workplaces had to establish stricter rules to…

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    impact. The fourth problem Jensen writes about it’s: “the endpoint of the logic behind simple living as a political act is that we will cause the least destruction possible if we are dead”. As I stated before, it’s inevitably for humans to cause destruction. But thanks to small changes and culture shifting, we are able to minimize harms. All in all, living simply as a political act may not change the world on its own, but it is a symbolic start to a larger…

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    to the refreshing autumn, which is the civil rights that they were promised. In the summer, from the high temperature, people sense like if they were boiling, this gives a feeling of suffering and frustration. Black people feel the same way because they are not getting their rights. On the other hand, in the autumn, the climate is so good that it freshens and activates people after the summer. Black people would feel the same thing when they get the rights that they were promised. However, if…

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    community? One would also ask what the role of the Fire Department was in addressing a protest situation? What is their role in ensuring the safety of people in a protest that did not involve any use of fire? Why is it only the man to the extreme right on the receiving end of the assault? Is he protecting the others or he just happened to be the unfortunate one there at the particular moment the photo was taken? As we struggle to answer these questions, the photograph puts us in a state of…

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